Key: Eb major
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This piece is entitled
Mob,
My
Own
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Business.
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Yes, this world would be a pretty easy and pleasant place to live if everybody
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could just mind his own business and let others do the same.
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But a wise old black faggot
Some people are shits, darling.
I was never able to forget it.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused
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because they have no business of
their own to mind.
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Any more than a smallpox virus.
Now your virus is an obligate
cellular parasite.
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occupying a certain brain area which
we may term the right center.
The mark of a basic shit is
he has to be right.
And right here, we must make a diagnostic distinction
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between a hardcore virus -occupied
shit and a plain, mean,
no -good son of a bitch.
Some of these sons of bitches don't cause any trouble at all,
they just want to be left
alone.
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And others cause minor trouble like
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barroom fights and bank robberies.
Commissioner
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Harry
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J.
Engslinger, diseased,
was an obligate shit.
Jesse
James,
Billy the
Kid, and
lifeline of the right virus.
And there is a growing recognition,
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even in official quarters, that victimless crimes
should be removed from the books or subject
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to minimal penalties.
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And those individuals who cannot or will not mind their
own business cling to the victimless
crime concept,
equating drug use to private sexual behavior with robbery and
murder.
If the right to mind one's own business is recognized,
the whole ship
position is untenable,
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and hell hath no more vociferous fury than an endangered
parasite.
Mr.
must reflect society's disapproval of
the addict.
And here is
Reverend
Braswell in the
Denver
Post.
Homosexuality is an
abomination to
more than robbery or murder.
Indeed, one is tempted to
seek a total solution to the shit
problem, slaughter the shits of the world
like cows with the aftos,
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and we'll all feel a lot better.
Well, such a drastic intervention
may not be necessary if the
public is alerted in time.
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I sincerely hope not from humanitarian considerations,
there are hopeful signs.
At the present time in
Colorado, where I am currently practicing,
approximate mob conditions
prevail.
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You can fuck a cow right in front of the sheriff
and all he can say is, boo.
the barn with an act like that.
Well with the right virus offset
out of the barnyard and into space.
and we are here to go.
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